Gladwell might take offense, but in the airplane reading field at least, the New Yorker writer is the Dan Brown of nonfiction.

A 2005 work on the power of snap judgments, Blink is filled with fascinating and entertaining facts and people: the tennis coach

who can predict double faults before the serve is hit, the marriage counselor who can peg whether a couple will divorce in the first few minutes of talking to them.

While the book makes for fascinating cocktail chatter, critics say the anecdotes don't support any larger theory.

Still, it's a brainy airport buy that few readers second-guess.

 

常言道，三思而后行，但并非每件事都容许你有三思的时间。

每个人都不得不连续地做出瞬间决断，格莱德威尔引用最新的神经科学与心理学研究成果，以及大量实例说明不要小觑这些不想之想，瞬间决定是正确的，丝毫不比三思后行逊色。

本书堪称2005年美国实用科普类图书畅销榜的冠军之作。